Bodies of five out of eight mountain climbers spotted in Indian Himalayas week after they go missing
Climbers pose for a picture before leaving for their expedition in Munsiyari town in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India on May 13, 2019.
An air force helicopter spotted the five bodies during a flight over the area where they went missing, Vijay Kumar Jogdande, the top government official in the nearby Pithoragarh district, said.The search mission was now working on the assumption that all eight climbers had been killed, he said.
Four climbers in the group had turned back and later raised the alarm about their missing colleagues. They were evacuated from their base camp by helicopter and were "fine and healthy", said Tripti Bhatt, an official of the Uttarakhand State Disaster Response Force.It has been one of the deadliest climbing seasons in the Himalayas for several years.
The leader of the missing group, Martin Moran, was the first person to summit Changuch, another peak in the area, and was known as a "godfather" of guiding in the Himalayas, according to a video diary of Rob Jarvis, who accompanied him on that expedition in 2009.
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